Clothes hook



Sept. 11, 1923. 1,4675% 5. P. MISTRO'IL CLOTHES HOOK Filed May 19 1922Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

SIMEON P. MISTROT, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.

CLOTHES HOOK.

Application filed May 19, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SLMEON P. MISTROT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Galveston, in the county of Galveston and State of Texas,have invented a new and useful Clothes Hook, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a clothes hook. one of its objects being toprovide a simple and inexpensive device of this character which can beformed of wire or other material and is so shaped as to provideefiicient means for holding a coat or skirt in the same manner as ispossible with an ordinary coat hanger, there being additional means forsupporting a hat or other garment.

Another object is to provide devices of this character which can be usedin lieu of the old forms of clothes or garment hooks simply by screwingthem into supporting structures.

\Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescriptimi proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope ofwhat is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the inventionshown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing which is a perspective view of the device,the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference 1 designates a stemformed by threading one end portion of a stiff wire, this wire beinglooped to provide straight parallel arms 2 and 3 the merging portions ofwhich are upturned as at at to form the terminal of a hook designed tosupport a hat or other garment. That end of the arm 3 nearest thethreaded portion 1 is bent downwardly over the arm 2 to provide adepending arm 5 the lower portion of which is curved forwardly as at 6and upwardly as at 7 where it merges into the lower portion of alaterally extended loop 8. The end portions or terminals of the loop arepreterably downturned as shown at 9 in Figure 2 so that a coat hanger isthus provided. A

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member 10 is extended from the bottom portion of the loop 8 and extendsparallel with the parts 7, 6 and 5, this portion .10 terminating in acoil 11 which is formed around that portion of the arm 2 nearest thethreaded end 1.

It will be apparent that by shaping the wire as described and shown thearticle produced can be connected readily to a supporting structuresimply by screwing the end 1 into the structure until the depending arm5 comes against the structure so as to be braced thereby. Thus a garmentcan he placed on the upturned portion 4 while a coat, skirt or the likecan be placed on the hanger 8. It will be noted that arm 5 loops orcrosses over arm 2 and where arm 5 merges into arm 3 it is engaged bythe coiled end 11 of arm 10. Thus any load to which arms 5 and 10 may besubjected will be supported by the arm 2. Consequently both arms 5 and10 serve to support garments placed on loop 8. The coil 11 is carriedsolely by the arm 3 and constitutes a means for holding the arms 2 and 3properly spaced apart where the arms 5 and 10 are located. Thus therigidity of the loop formed by the arms 2 and 3 is increased.

While the device has been shown and described as made of stifi wire itis to be understood that it can be formed of any other suitablematerial. Furthermore the hat hook can be dispensed with if so desired.

- \Vhat is claimed is 2- A clothes hook formed in a single length ofwire bent to form an elongated loop having straight parallel arms, asupport engaging screw formed by one end of one of the arms, a dependingportion extending over and downwardly from the screw-carrying arm andmerging into a forwardly extending portion upturned at one end andmerging into the lower portion of a laterally extended loop, and amember integral with and extending from the bottom portion of said loopand parallel with the depending arm and its forward extension, saidmember having a terminal coil engaging that arm of the elongated loopfrom which the depending arm extends, the screw-carrying arm beingextended between the depending arm and that portion paras my own, I havehereto afiixed my signaallel therewith and constituting a support turein the presence of two Witnesses. for a load carried by both thedepending arm and the member parallel therewith, the said SIMEONMISTRO'L 5 coil constituting means for spacing the side \Vit'ness'es:

portions of the elongated loop. T. W. HoEoKER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing E. B. MA'ITHEWS.

